[Info-vax] Where is VMS used for new projects?

[Main, Kerry]

[think I finally figured out why my posts were not making it through]

Despite some of the efforts in this OpenVMS newsgroup to downplay OpenVMS's contributions, for Customers who have important applications where scale UP and out performance, as well as stability and security are critical, OpenVMS is very much in play today.

As an example, the Shanghai Stock Exchange recently (early last year) migrated from UNIX to OpenVMS as part of their next generation stock trading platform. And for those who are not familiar with Shanghai, some expect it to replace New York in a few years as the center of the global financial community.

Also, some very mission critical manufacturing (e.g. SCADA) Customers who are concerned with the virus of the day have migrated from Windows to OpenVMS Integrity.

OpenVMS on Integrity manages the SMS voting on "American Idol" .. something like 100M votes during the final episode last season.

A few references:
http://tinyurl.com/59uzls  (video reference) 

http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA1-7999ENW.pdf  (note American Idol content) 

http://www.vista-control.com/itanium_success.htm  (Windows to OpenVMS Integrity)

http://tinyurl.com/2b5bpsf (Fraport Airport at Itanium Awards)


Regards,

Kerry Main
Senior Consultant
HP Services Canada
Voice: 613-797-4937
Fax: 613-591-4477
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-----Original Message-----
From: info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On Behalf Of JF Mezei
Sent: February-16-11 5:05 PM
To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Where is VMS used for new projects?

Since VMS is not marketed, few "new" customers adopt VMS these days.

In fact, HP execs over the years had limited their comments to "supporting the installed base".

The very first day of HP owning VMS, they had the famous Stallard memo where he noted that they woudl support VMS as long as needed, but expected customer to migrate to HP UX in their own time.


It will be interesting to see what happens to IT systems with the Deutsche Borse and NYSE merger.
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